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Was Roman "street food" a known concept among historians before the recent discovery of an ancient street food shop in Pompeii? Were street food shops a thing elsewhere in the ancient world, say, in Athens or Carthage?	81
What are the historical reasons for World War 1 being described by some historians as 'inevitable'?	67
What was the public reaction to the Rodney King riots in 1992? Did the majority of the non-black demographic in America sympathize with the rioters and/or their cause?	59
Did Zarathustra, the founder of the Zoroastrian religion which dominated ancient Persia - actually exist?	43
How much is known for certain about pre-Hellenic indigenous populations of what later became referred to as ancient Greece and who were the "Pelasgians"?	22
How would Alexander's phalangite army used in the persian invasion fare against the Royal Prussian Army of Frederick the Great from the 7 years war if the macedonians were twice as many?	5
How true is the assertion that during the middle ages in Western Europe, almost nobody could read ancient greek, and the knowledge from ancient Greek philosophers and historians was all but lost?	4
Is there any certainty on whether the Tarim Basin Mummies were from a population that were Tocharian, or, Indo-Iranian speakers?	3
What is the general consensus among historians concerning the origins of the "Sea Peoples" who supposedly contributed to the Bronze age collapse in Mycenaean Greece, Egypt and the Near East?	2
Recent aDNA studies of ancient Rome have shown a significant east mediterranean shift in ancestry, starting from late republic and intensifying during the imperial era. The ancestry is Levantine/Anatolian-like. What is said in ancient sources about this phenomenon of "Easternization" in Rome?	2

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